Hey guys, this is the situation i'm in. We recently hired several new Oil rig safety technicians. We issued them laptops, so they can file their daily safety reports etc. One of the guys we hired was a referral by another employee. He was in the 2 week long training class with the other employees. After day 3, where we issued them a machine, he has since not showed up and we found out from another employee that was sharing the same hotel with him, that he is going to work somewhere else. He is not answering any calls or returning any e-mails, and we are trying to get his machine back. There is always legal action since we do have his social address etc, but before it comes to that i'd like to know what i could have installed/done to remotely render the computer un-operational and/or displayed a warning, play a continuing sound that the machine is stolen. Right now i have vipre and logmein on the machine. With vipre i could terminate all traffic, and with logmein i could try and wait till he is online to do something. but i know he could always take it to best buy or another tech bench to "fix" his problem. So a stolen warning could at least deter a user from keeping the machine, and make them turn it in. Any advice or tools (free or pay) would be greatly appreciated.
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